• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    No, that the train being only seconds late is a Japanese thing. In Europe we have anything between “No Train Today” to “Train passed through the station without stopping”

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      16 hours ago

      I lived somewhere with good busses. When the bus drove by without stopping (after dark, an hour before service was supposed to end) I felt like choosing violence

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        13 hours ago

        I was early to the train station with my coworker. We met a lot of people still waiting for the train before ours on the same platform. Suddenly, that other train was dropped from the display and replaced by our train. Seconds later, their train simply rushed through on a different track.

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          12 hours ago

          I’ve heard of those trains. Or rather I saw one in a movie about a train that had to “speed” around a city keeping its “speed” over 50 and if its “speed” dropped, it would explode. I think it was called… “The Train That Couldn’t Slow Down.”

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            7 hours ago

            No, the train just skipped a station, and our train, going in the same direction, was coming in almost on time a few minutes later.

            It was a bit crowded, though, and of course they lost their seat reservations.

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            12 hours ago

            Yeah those are common in Europe. Most people just wave at Sandra when they pass by.

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      20 hours ago

      Ooh look at that shiny metal track. I wonder if it is ever used. Fable has it that great carriages arrive, and distant rattling and horns can sometimes be heard, but no one knows for sure…